Religion and Free Speech

This youtube video shows a report by CNN and a discussion involving our old friend Christopher Hitchens. The subject is a series of "blasphemy" laws introduced to the UN primarily aimed at preventing the expression of words or images that would offend people of a particular religious faith (the real purpose is aimed at protecting the feelings of Muslims).

I've discussed this earlier in my blog, and I think I should emphasize how dangerous these types of laws are to the values we have as a society. There is a reason that our founding fathers specifically wrote into our Constitution a Bill Of Rights, protecting people from exactly these restrictions.